I was sort of on board with the two-paper rule until I got to the arguments about the reviews. Maybe in his mind integrating literature into a cohesive summary (ala meta-analysis) is a novel contribution, but if not,…
I was going to post something about methadone. I saw the same parallel, but see it the opposite of you maybe. To me, if people are taking kratom and it's helping them, why take that out of their control and use it to…
Just want to point out that the idea that males are being persecuted for their gender isn't necessarily a fringe incel position. For example, Doris Lessing--yes, that Doris Lessing--is expressing concerns about…
Honestly, I might just jump in and learn Rust. I think it's a good place to start with memory management issues because you have to deal with it but good practice is enforced. C/C++ is the obvious alternative for that…
Unfortunately, I think you're right. From my perspective, this is exactly the sort of government-sanctioned monopoly / rent-seeking that's causing so much income inequality and economic pathology. The government should…
I agree completely with what you wrote, but wanted to add something, which is a comparison between reactions to the Bem ESP study and work on the EM Drive…
People drink bleach to cure autism. Should we ban bleach? First, there's a difference between allowing the sale and distribution of a substance at all and selling it with a claim. All I would say is that [almost?] no…
My thoughts: 1. In general I don't see the government's role being to police snake oil salespersons. Fraud in the form of inaccurate ingredient lists, etc. but not the snake oil itself (people should be able to sell…
The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful (I'm not talking about label accuracy;…
Meta-analysis as we know it today is largely as it is because of psychologists using it to study therapy effects. Referring to Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment as the "emblem of its field" is a bit strange in…
I think the evidence begs to differ: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3475 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...
This is a paper that I'm glad was published (maybe not Cell, but somewhere), because it presents an interesting and pretty clear theory. At the same time, it seems like it's fairly clearly falsifiable almost on its…
I've had similar personal experiences to you and work in health care, and share your skepticism. What I think people are skeptical of today is not necessarily expertise, but credentialism and the idea that expertise…
Perhaps. I'd prefer it not to--I'd rather have an ecosystem with private and public competition, and one with net neutrality regulation. But it seems to me the discussion is generally really lopsided, with little to no…
1. Monopolization has increased in markets in general (see: ATT-Time Warner merger). 2. ISPs have realized what they can do with their increased monopolies, and have started developing technical strategies for doing so.…
Another strategy to this (not exclusive of other strategies) is to encourage municipal ISPs, or even go further and roll out federal ISP infrastructure ala the federal highway system. I've always thought that this would…
I was sort of on board with the two-paper rule until I got to the arguments about the reviews. Maybe in his mind integrating literature into a cohesive summary (ala meta-analysis) is a novel contribution, but if not,…
I was going to post something about methadone. I saw the same parallel, but see it the opposite of you maybe. To me, if people are taking kratom and it's helping them, why take that out of their control and use it to…
Just want to point out that the idea that males are being persecuted for their gender isn't necessarily a fringe incel position. For example, Doris Lessing--yes, that Doris Lessing--is expressing concerns about…
Honestly, I might just jump in and learn Rust. I think it's a good place to start with memory management issues because you have to deal with it but good practice is enforced. C/C++ is the obvious alternative for that…
Unfortunately, I think you're right. From my perspective, this is exactly the sort of government-sanctioned monopoly / rent-seeking that's causing so much income inequality and economic pathology. The government should…
I agree completely with what you wrote, but wanted to add something, which is a comparison between reactions to the Bem ESP study and work on the EM Drive…
People drink bleach to cure autism. Should we ban bleach? First, there's a difference between allowing the sale and distribution of a substance at all and selling it with a claim. All I would say is that [almost?] no…
My thoughts: 1. In general I don't see the government's role being to police snake oil salespersons. Fraud in the form of inaccurate ingredient lists, etc. but not the snake oil itself (people should be able to sell…
The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful (I'm not talking about label accuracy;…
Meta-analysis as we know it today is largely as it is because of psychologists using it to study therapy effects. Referring to Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment as the "emblem of its field" is a bit strange in…
I think the evidence begs to differ: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3475 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...
This is a paper that I'm glad was published (maybe not Cell, but somewhere), because it presents an interesting and pretty clear theory. At the same time, it seems like it's fairly clearly falsifiable almost on its…
I've had similar personal experiences to you and work in health care, and share your skepticism. What I think people are skeptical of today is not necessarily expertise, but credentialism and the idea that expertise…
Perhaps. I'd prefer it not to--I'd rather have an ecosystem with private and public competition, and one with net neutrality regulation. But it seems to me the discussion is generally really lopsided, with little to no…
1. Monopolization has increased in markets in general (see: ATT-Time Warner merger). 2. ISPs have realized what they can do with their increased monopolies, and have started developing technical strategies for doing so.…
Another strategy to this (not exclusive of other strategies) is to encourage municipal ISPs, or even go further and roll out federal ISP infrastructure ala the federal highway system. I've always thought that this would…